"Nearly 38 years ago to this day, my later father and I pushed a Datsun 1,000 from the start of where this new project is going to being to the end of where this new project is going to end through floodwaters, knee deep to get me to grade eight at Rockhampton Grammar School," he laughs.

"So this is personally a great triumph because no longer will parents and children have to push their cars, more modern than our family car, these days through floodwaters on the Yeppen floodplain.